Biography

Katherine Liang, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in primary care and preventive care.

Dr. Liang earned her medical degree at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She completed a residency in family medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and received advanced training through a clinical informatics fellowship at MetroHealth in Cleveland, Ohio.

Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Board of Preventive Medicine, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2025.

Dr. Liang has a focus on informatics and serves as Deputy Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Primary Care at UT Southwestern.

She is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Medical Informatics Association. Her scholarly work has been published in leading medical journals, including Gut, and she has contributed to the book Asian American Parenting: Family Process and Intervention.

Personal Note

When she’s not at work, Dr. Liang enjoys traveling, going on food tours, staying active, playing in community sports leagues, and cheering on local professional sports teams.

  • Medical School - University of Massachusetts School of Medicine (2014-2019)
  • Residency - Cleveland Clinic (2019-2022), Family Medicine
  • Fellowship - MetroHealth (2022-2024), Clinical Informatics
  • American Academy of Family Physicians
  • American Medical Association
  • American Medical Informatics Association
  • Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
  • Texas Academy of Family Physicians
  • Resident Research Award 2022, Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors and the North American Primary Care Research Group
  • Books
    • Behind the disempowering parenting: expanding the framework to understand Asian-American women's self-harm and suicidality in Asian American Parenting: Family Process and Intervention
      Hahm H, Kim Y, Brova M, Liang K, Maglalang D, Rivera A (2017), Springer
  • Electronic clinical decision support
  • Implementation of guidelines-based medical practice
  • Digital patient engagement and end-user experience

Clinical Focus

  • Primary Care
  • Preventive Care

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